Originally Posted By Mr X Only THESE death panels are actually real! <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6541/excommunicated_over_abortion" target="_blank">http://www.inthesetimes.com/ar...abortion</a> ***Earlier this year, Sister Margaret McBride was excommunicated from the Catholic Church for approving an abortion needed to save a woman’s life. An administrator at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, McBride was part of the hospital’s ethics committee that decided in November 2009 to allow a 27-year-old woman with pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the arteries that supply blood to the lungs, to terminate her 11-week pregnancy. Due to her condition, the woman would almost certainly have died without the abortion.*** ***After learning of McBride’s decision, Diocese of Phoenix bishop Thomas J. Olmsted declared in May that she was “automatically excommunicated” and asked her to resign her post as vice-president of mission integration at St. Joseph’s. Olmsted, who is responsible for three of the ten church excommunications ordered this century, said in a statement, “An unborn child is not a disease. While medical professionals should certainly try to save a pregnant mother’s life, the means by which they do it can never be by directly killing her unborn child. The end does not justify the means.”*** So, the life of the unborn is sacrosanct, but the mother who's life is being threatened directly BY the fetus...not so much. Got it. This really is sickening. And yes, very much a death panel (with any Catholic officials on said panels under severe duress when it comes to making these kinds of life or death decisions no less!).
Originally Posted By Mr X ***“Sister McBride’s subsequent treatment and the diocese’s unambiguous statement sends the message to other hospital employees, at St. Joseph’s and at other Catholic hospitals around the country, that they risk punishment if they provide life-saving pregnancy terminations in the future,” ACLU attorneys wrote***
Originally Posted By dshyates Since the complications occured at 11 weeks and were deemed to lead to a life threatening codition for the mother. Then there is little doubt that it would have killed her long before the fetus would be viable. Resulting in the deaths of both mother and baby. I guess that's God's will. So be it saith the Lord.
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Originally Posted By disneydad109 maybe the poor woman could have avoided this whole mess if the church allowed the use contraception . I may have misspelled that word,iif I did , I don't care .
